Terraviva News

Terraviva is the daily newspaper of the World Conservation Congress. Read about climate change, the financial crisis, eco-friendly driving, mining and indigenous people.

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I need your Money…
Since climate change is now a demonstrated fact, rather than a make-believe worst- selling fiction of a few years back, money is needed to forestall it and cure its ills.

Save a hippopotamus, and get development
Back in 1998, the 17 farmer and hunting communities of Wechiau, living along the Black Volta River in Ghana had neither schools nor drinking water or electricity.

Indigenous people: We too matter
Indigenous peoples from across the world found the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress the right forum to discuss their traditional practices of adaptation to climate change.